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The Masonic Charity Foundation of Connecticut has agreed in principle to purchase a privately owned nursing home removed from the fraternal organization’s main facility, to operate as a long-term care facility for its own members. The contract to purchase the 156-bed Buckingham Gardens Convalescent Home on Toddy Hill Road in Newtown was approved by the foundation’s board of managers at a meeting at Masonic Home and Hospital Wednesday, September 15.

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Competition between communities to attract appropriate light industry and business within their borders has led one member of the Legislative Council to ask that Newtown consider creating and Economic Development Committee. Mr Snyder, a member of the ordinance committee, explained this week that he decided to propose an EDC “after going through the last series of budget meetings and the tug-of-war between people wanting more services and others not wanting to pay for the services.”

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A 26-year-old man was killed in an industrial accident early Thursday morning, September 23, at the Allied Container Corporation on Edmond Road, Newtown. Sgt Michael Fekete and Patrolman Robert Tvardzik investigated and found that the man had been working on a box stacker machine, when a shaft sheared off, causing part of the machine to fall on him.

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It took Newtown firemen about two hours to extinguish what Fire Chief William McCarthy called a routine garbage fire at the Charles Batchelder Company on Swamp Road on Wednesday, September 22. According to Batchelder officials, the fire was accidentally started when trash was moved too close to a mass of hot iron.

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The Newtown Chamber of Commerce has joined with the Cyrenius H. Booth Library in a display featuring the products of Newtown manufacturing firms. The exhibit is part of the library’s 50th jubilee celebration and will be on view at the library from Monday, September 20, to Sunday, September 26.

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Veteran scouter Jim Behan finds himself on the threshold of a dream — an expensive dream, he admits, but one which he maintains will pay high dividends in the future. It exists in the form of a 20-acre parcel of land recently purchased by Cullen Memorial Inc as an outdoor facility for youth. Mr Behan is president of the Cullens’ board. The site sits quietly off Taunton Lake Road surrounded by an additional 10 acres of woodland and lovely residences. On the property are four buildings, a neglected swimming pool, an abundance of trees and wild life, and a lovely seven-acre pond of its own.

 

September 27, 1957

The Newtown Planning and Zoning Commission held a public hearing last Friday evening in the Alexandria Room of Edmond Town Hall on its proposed regulations for trailer parks and mobile home parks. The hearing was most cooperative and harmonious throughout. In the future, monthly fees will be collected by the owners of the mobile home parks from each mobile home owner and turned over to the tax collector. Other discussion concerned the proper requirements for water supply, garbage disposal, and adequate sewage systems, as well as the provision that occupancy of each mobile home be limited to two persons per bedroom.

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Charles J. Parker, assistant secretary of the New Haven Foundation, has notified Leo E. Garrepy, principal of the Sandy Hook School, that a grant in the amount of $1,075 has been voted for his program “Improving Posture in the Elementary School — An Experimental Study.” Of the first and third grade pupils examined at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year, only 19 percent were considered to have had good posture.

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The public is cordially invited to the dedication and opening of the new addition to the Congregational Church House on October 6 at 3 pm. A brief service of dedication in the Memorial Room and the introduction of those responsible for the erection of the building will be followed by a ribbon cutting and general inspection of the new addition.

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Beau’s Fancy Girl, a year-old English setter, won second place in the puppy class at the Anderson field trial held in New Preston last week. The dog is owned by Carl Oberg of the Village Texaco Servicenter and is considered to be one of the best in its class.

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Newtown Building Sites: Protect your investment by building in the finest section of Newtown. Look over “Fieldstone Drive.” Site carefully planned and approved by the Newton Planning and Zoning Commission. 45 Acres have been divided into a few attractive sites. Roads constructed to town specifications.

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State Policeman James M. Costello of Fairfield has been assigned to Newtown as resident state policeman, and State Policeman Robert H. Rasmussen, Jr of New Fairfield, as state resident officer in that town, according to announcement by State Police Commissioner John C. Kelly. The resident policemen will assume their duties October 1.

September 23, 1932

Glorious weather greeted the throngs of worshippers from far and near who flocked to Trinity, Sunday morning, to participate in the service commemorating the founding of the parish 200 years ago. The attendance at the service eclipsed anything in recent years. Members of sister churches generously promoted the success of the occasion by their interest and attendance.

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The Bee is among 200 newspapers in 38 states selected by Prof Roy L. French, chairman of the department of journalism at the University of Southern California, for special study by students enrolled in journalism classes at USC this fall. News story form, types, of territory served, general mechanical make-up, community projects sponsored, and advertising are among the points to be analyzed by Trojan upperclassmen registered in a course in “Community Newspaper” under the direction of Prof French.

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COAL! Sales Agents for the Famous BLUE COAL AND GLEN ALDEN COAL! FUEL OIL! Carload of Alfalfa on track. Car of Peanut Shells for bedding in transit. R.H. HOLCOMB & CO., Newtown

C. Roy Platt, who has been visiting Attorney James M. Betts, has returned to his home in Roosevelt, L.I. While in town Mr Platt entered and assisted the choir (trained under the leadership of Donald Griscom) of St John’s church in rendering some of the beautiful music that they are so famed for. Mr Platt was especially pleasing in his solo work.

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Hardly anyone who is not “in the know” would imagine there were quite as many kinds of certain fruits as are revealed by the Danbury Fair. It will hold forth in Danbury, Conn., October 3-4-5-6-7 and 8 and among the items of interesting information one finds are: 30 varieties of corn; 18 of tomatoes; 11 of cucumbers; 14 of cabbage; 12 of melons; 27 of pumpkins and squash; 18 of peppers and eggplant; 11 or turnips and many varieties of other vegetables.

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Albert N. Boyson of Queen street has just completed the building of a new up-to-date milk house to handle the cooling and bottling of the milk for his growing milk business. The building has all the latest devices for the cooling and bottling of milk and the washing of bottles, a new Universal refrigerator has also been installed.

 

September 27, 1907

The services in commemoration of the 175th anniversary of Trinity church began on Saturday morning at 10, with the Holy Communion which was celebrated by Rev William N. Ackley of Brooklyn, a former assistant rector of Trinity parish, assisted by Rev James H. George. The first formal address of the morning was given by Rev Samuel Hart, D.D. of Middletown, so greatly beloved throughout Connecticut by Connecticut churchmen.

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Selectman S.A. Blackman has had a very fine imported granite monument set up in the Land’s End cemetery by Hughes & Chapman of Bridgeport. It is a very handsome piece of work and reflects credit on the company’s popular representative, W.H. Moore, who made the arrangements.

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An autopsy was performed Wednesday, by Dr Sedwick of Brookfield on John Wallace, the young man killed at Hawleyville, Monday night, at the undertaking rooms of P.F. Keating. It was found he had sustained a fracture of the skull and Officer Johnson and the state police are now working on the murder theory.

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William Jordan of Half Way River has a fine crop of potatoes in spite of the poor season. He gets from 12 to 20 nice saleable potatoes out of every hill and he dug one hill last week Thursday which by actual count had 95 potatoes in it, 12 or 15 of them were good saleable potatoes. The rest were about the size of small marbles. This is not a newspaper story but an actual fact.

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After 25 years in blanket sheet form The Bee gives it up and changes with this week from a 10-page paper, to a 16-page paper. By the change the size of the pages is reduced to more handy form, and we shall be surprised if our readers are not generally pleased with the transformation. The space is not reduced, but the paper appears in a more modern form. It has made an endless amount of work to begin with, as our readers may imagine.